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Re: How does your team incorporate engineering units?

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Originally Posted by hzheng_449 View Post
Moreover, the feature seems to be more of a crutch than a solution. Unit confliction can easily be solved with good planning, sanity checks, and testing.

;tldr: we haven't heard of it before, and we probably wont use it since it's easier to code w/o and the issues can be solved with good coding practice
I suggest you research the Mars Climate Orbiter for a good example of how a seemingly obvious bug can slip through the cracks, with catastrophic results, in spite of having some of the best & brightest programmers and most stringent QA processes.